Man: "FUCK THIS RAIN. HEY!"
Me: "Hey..."
Man: "YOU ALRIGHT?!"
Me: "Yeah, fine thanks."
Man: "...YOU WALK LIKE A BITCH!"

Inspired by this video.

List of objects I can incorporate with my identity to create a stellar leave behind. I just have to pick one:

• Small can of WD-40
• Baby Maglight
• krazy glue
• Fishing Lure
• Nalgene Bottle
• Single serve martini shaker
• Bubble Wrap
• Magnifying glass
• Small Rhodia Notebook
• Pink Pearl Erasers
• Corn Holders
• Car air freshner
• Shoe Polish
• Printing my resume on a 30 gallon galvanized steel trash can (they'll never be able to throw it away).

I kind of like the trash can idea, though it definitely has some backfire potential...

Careful how you categorize your published materials, Flagler. Some people may find the pairing of "Minorities" and "Disabilities" a little bit offensive.

Just decided what my eleventh portfolio project is going to be: A refurbished Cousteau Society website. I just started tonight and already I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Thumbs up. This is a screen shot of the most developed portion of the site, the navigation. As of now, I think Liza and I are working using the push-pull method. That is, one of us gets ahead and inspires the other to work harder and vice versa. It's not always fun, one is always left feeling a little overwhelmed by the end of the night, but in the long run it evens out. I have unwaivable certainty that my 10 or 11 close comrades will finish this semester with stellar books.

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. "

-JSF

A Jack London quote I've always been rather fond of.

Please read this and see if it gives you any face-slapping epiphanies, because I can't figure it out.

How is everything so cheap? When you think about everything it took for some product to get into your arms, everything seems way out of whack. Let's take a jar of peanut for instance.

At Publix, for premium peanut butter, you might pay 6 dollars for a large jar. Consider this:

+ Someone needs to pay the farmer and workers for planting, growing, and collecting the peanuts. This involves large, multimillion dollar machinery.
+ Someone needs to pay for the trucks and gas and drivers which transport the peanuts to a processing plant.
+ Someone needs to pay for a HUGE plant which processes the peanuts. This includes the worker's salaries, electricity to run everything, water, all the extra ingredients, and all the farmers and workers and trucks and gas that brought those extra ingredients to the factory.
+ Someone needs to pay for the semi trucks which distribute the peanut butter to stores across the country.
+ Someone needs to pay for all the grocery stores, all of their electricity, taxes, and all of the wages and benefits of the workers.

And on top of all that, everyone must profit substantially. None of this would happen if it wasn't making money for someone.

Almost every product, whether it be food or cars or staples, goes through a similar process. I can't wrap my head around how $6 would be enough to pay for everything that brought the peanut butter to my hands.

Once you learn the alphabet you are trapped forever. Words control your thoughts, your actions, your dreams, your feelings. You can only express yourself with words and letters, even if they're onomatopoeias (for once you're aware of words even guttural sounds can be scribed). Although it's rather pointless to say here, hold off from language and all its bindings for as long as possible. Those 26 beautiful but ruthless dictators will never set you free after you accept them into your life (until the day you die, of course, and are cast back into the ineffable).

I've been considering wiping out my computer completely for quite some time now to prolong its life span. Because I think that helps? I have everything backed up on a 320G hard drive, but if I'm going to clear my laptop I'd want to buy another. If I'm not backing up everything electric in two places, I'm not really backing it up. The only thing holding me back is the ability to save the play count on my iTunes files. Simply because I use it to find out what I listen to most/what my favorite songs of any one band are. When ever I listen to music this is one of the main ways I display the songs, by play count. I just like it that way. Who would want to trash 191 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes, and 25 seconds of playtime data anyway?

You know, a little playing with levels, up the yellow, and the "The" could have matched "Office" just perfectly. Maybe that wasn't the point though, maybe it was never intended to match. In any case, just an observation.

Mini-fail I caught today: